Advanced Fashion Disruption: Recent Episodes
Megan Summerville and Benson Roberts III
Advanced fashion disruption’s methodology is to recognize the roots of emerging creativity, OPENLY discuss the current fashion being shown (good, mediocre, embellished, bad, or plain copied), temper the things we see light and forward movement in with what can be improved upon. We will honestly review venues and shows to shine light on which one’s leverage the strongest return for participants. Our commitment to open civil conversation will take place in our After Care fashion series. Our intention is to be stinging with our combined critical expertise, but provide solutions to pervasive fashion business issues.
Megan and benson reconnect with each other after loss and growth. They share the biggest lessons they learned the past 4 weeks, and continue to disrupt and thrive.
The disruptors finish the master class for market and benson challenges the duo to a drawing that shows a gender neutral design in eachrespective 'designer's voice'. They ponder if Marques would join them on a show.
Carol Huls of https://dittoform.com/ join the disruptors to talk about how DITTO is disrupting the dress form business, and how hands-on the form construction is. Her business is growing amid resource scarcity, and an ongoing pandemic. She continues to deploy faster better data capturing technology for a final dress form product that more accurately captures the body.
Moment one Megan hits record, benson digs into markets and knowing your market. Megan dishes on her market experience, and benson gives a master lesson in market sell through. This is part one of market info from these two industry professionals.
Megan and benson discuss taking repair and remake clients. Megan needs some ponte, and benson gives her some valuable info on what to look for. New scissor snip sounds. And, the inevitable talk of aging and aging parents.
Benson and Megan talk about starting over and over and over, The pitfalls of giving into the melancholy and the tunnel that always appears bright. Join us for this designers' ride of ups and downs in the dust bowl of covid.
Shout Out Rachelelsepth.com for some great fashion history parallel off Mme Gres.
Co-host Megan Summerville calls Gabrial Tabalan , and gets the scoop on this Denver industry professional's rise to sold out status after each collection drop. Why she ditched the runway, and got comfortable with identifying their brand's client and working with them directly. Gabrial shares with us a tool she can't live with out, and how she self edited her looks as she refined construction.
Photo art: Joey Gallahan, Model: Mark Rec Wardrobe: Megan Summerville
Megan and benson talk about when they trade, who they love to trade with, and reveal some of their past ego and relief to reconnect.
Shout Out:
https://www.obsidianandblush.com/
https://teodorapogonatphotography.com/
http://www.joseluissalon.com/teresa-romero
Gerry Hannan
https://www.raphaelumscheid.com/index
Francesca
- woowoo sh*t
Megan and benson continue the critique talk we begin dissecting. WWSMD ,What Would Stephen Moser Do. The continual disappointment of gaslight patriarchy in our industry. We build on the know better do better process. #pinksweeney #denveryoudeservebetter
The Disruptors continue to talk about Critique and then, true to form they give each other an honest opinion about a series of looks and a singular look. Megan gushes about the Pattern Magic Book series.
Megan says she would have never taken herself as a bridal client. They begin to talk stupid silly projects, #projectpimps, flesh light silicone, business collapse, vocal political social media can loose you accounts, setting client boundaries too, contracts, self serving podcasting, the fashion elephant in the room, assessment or judgement, #coutureranch , clarification on the Thom Browne show, they invite Susan O'neil nack to see if they can crash the recording system again. Shout out http://www.rachelelspeth.com/.
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TW: mature talk about sex as it relates to product design. Mental health.
We dredge up the slew of seasonal runway shows poaching our inboxes. Is Megan starting a new line, the cards know. Will benson be moving? Find out out! Drop us a line! Buy us a coffee! : https://www.patreon.com/advancedfashiondisruption
Our special guest from Barcelona , Jen Sidary, You can find her furiously working for AngelforFashion.com, and winning awards for her work from Delivering Good : https://wwd.com/business-news/markets/delivering-good-fundraising-ukraine-ceo-1235200421/ shout out : http://www.rachelelspeth.com/
Benson and Megan talk about the use of one own name in a labels' development and the repercussions of selling your work under your name, and what that value is
We discuss long standing retailers in the mid high category and why the investment fashion there and through other independent designers is important. And Megan forgets that its a discussion day and not a call day. Lets laugh together.
We Make the HUGE annouancement about the VoicesofGlobalFashion.org , a teaser aboiut the fashion challenge that we will be hosting with rachelelspeth.com, and the long term disaster relief to fashion communites worldwide. If you would like to donate to our in progress of 501c3 status please visit the website and submit a contact form. If you are a designer that would like to secure a limmited spot, please know that all participants will pay for textile shipment when general sign up opens. Stay tuned!
We start talking New designers, Now that our devices are so smart, they begin to listen to when we want to see. Into my fashion feed comes JOÃO PIMENTA.
I love sharing new inspiration and opening up discussions about inspiration and when it goes too far, and how to work with artisan groups.
We talk Uvalde and our hatred for the republican party in Texas. Thoughts and prayers is a bull corn way to say you just don't care
We talk this week about higher education and how that trap of 'the romantic designer life' brings so many to university programs of design lacking fundamental skills that never have a teaching focus in many programs
This is typical of our aftercare content, where we offer insight and real solutions for our typical PFF content and episodes. Please support our designer friends at angelforfashion.com and look for upcoming content on our patreon.
Megan sees a model complaining about designers being cheap. This is not the first, but the system is broken and we begin that discussion.
We have the big sads, and we talk frankly about our coping mechanisms, if we are, how we are, what has pulled us through before. There's F-bomb, and bj mention (not baby Jesus, a al maria bamford,), brief mention of unaliving/suicide.... this will not be the episode that gets us on apple podcasts.
Please support our Ukrainian fashion friends at Angelforfashion.com
We talk OPP (Other Peoples' Projects/Problems), industry people that don't know how project development and pattern archiving happens for clients trying to shame us for keeping back up copies for them. We probably drop some f-bombs.
Megan confesses to cutting down existing labels that had Austin, Tx closing the care portion, and needing new labels. Its just a Friday talk jammy. We say the word sh*t and that f'n one only once. If you find another curse word, let us know and a thing might happen.
We talk pockets and why a client might think they want them, but the style of the garments they select are not suitable for the worn look. We talk Eshakti.com and JIT fulfillment, Rachelelspeth.com, Angelforfashion.com, Sharif handbags, Ditto Form, and puppers.
We wrap up our week of talks in fashion re: Rachel Elspeth Gross of Rachelelspeth.com and Fashion Constellate, Jen Sidary of Angelforfashion.com
Advanced Fashion Disruption invites Jen Sidary to catch up on what she is up to at www.Angelforfashion.com and how you can support Ukrainian designers.
Brief mention of war crimes, but today's episodes is cussin' free.
We are horrified at the Kim K wearing of the Marilyn Monroe historical textile to the MET Gala. We talk of the event's beginnings of Midnight parties in Central Park, moving swiftly to ettiquette loss as a whole for the fashion industry. yikies. Please find Rachel's many and detailed projects at Rachelelspeth.com Thank you so much Rachel!
Episode 1!!!! We dish the project runway-ification and the romantic notions outsiders or new to fashion people think this business is about.
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We discuss some mutual fashion friends and their projects. Rachel Elspeth - Gross of Little Red Fashion, Fashion Constellate, and her own spectacular historical dives on instagram, and how she taught me about manifesting the audacity of greatness. We then move on to talking Ukrainian fashion and Jen Sidary's brilliant project AngelforFashion.com
Our shorter weekly phone call where we discuss current fashion industry topics and prepare you for our full length show.
Our longer Friday release of Phone a Fashion Friend. Our unscripted weekly phone call where we catch up on each other's work. We invite you to schedule a Friday and talk fashion with us! Ask us your deepest questions, industry or other wise.
Since we are going deep, we begin the hard questions put to each other. This is a multipart and on going series, and we welcome your questions for our Fashion After Care segments.
All the content of this podcast are the opinions of the co-hosts and does not reflect current or future sponsors.
We began this disruption as homage to our many calls we made to each other over the years.